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Detaining citizens without charge, obstructing their access to legal council and depriving them of sleep is exactly the type of behavior that undermines Israel’s claim to be a democratic society.
When assessing Israel’s role in a conflict between the United States and Iran, we must determine Jewish interests not only according to Israel’s immediate defensive needs but also according to our own sense of history and national mission.
Israel must pursue peace with the Palestinians as an advancement of Jewish liberation rather than as a retreat from it.
Despite the total lack of confidence most Israelis have in their politicians, lawmakers seem to have no trouble awarding themselves a pay hike to nearly nine times the national minimum wage.
While the Zionist establishment seem to want younger members, they are not interested in fresh ideas or new organizational structures.
Still wearing their pajamas, the two girls ran down stairs to see what presents were beneath the tree. But instead of cries of joy, they both screamed.
Israel’s difficult balance between particularism and universalism is often highlighted around Ḥanukah, which celebrates the victory of a radical tribalist minority over the forces of cultural imperialism.
What were the Maccabees actually fighting for and how does it relate to contemporary cultural frictions within Israeli society?
Each of us is a candle We stand tall and proud, like wicks We draw on the oil of our past And buried deep…
As Leḥi’s official radio announcer, Cohen became the haunting voice of the Sternist underground in the minds of Palestine’s British occupiers.
Washington’s interests in the Semitic region have long demanded the partition of Israel into two separate states, each dependent on US economic and military aid to survive.
Pro-Israel Jews in the US frequently call out anti-Semitism on the left but tend to ignore Donald Trump’s many anti-Jewish tropes and dog whistles.